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Pomegranate Sweet Potatoes

"I don't like sweet potatoes, but this is good tasting and almost good for you. I love the convenience of plastic wrapped sweet potatoes that cook in the microwave for 4 minutes. Baking your own would work too."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Pomegranate Sweet Potatoes

Why it works: Pomegranate and cinnamon share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 94 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Pomegranate Sweet Potatoes

4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook50 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

393Calories
6 gProtein
13 gFat
68 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Pomegranate1/2 cup seeds (87g)72
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pomegranate + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together94 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Sweet potato + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together539 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Sweet potato + pomegranatetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Cinnamon + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the pomegranate

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, apple cider vinegar, sugar, cinnamon, butter):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Pomegranatethe original
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Applefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, apple cider vinegar, sugar, cinnamon, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.